DUANE ALLMAN, Holiday Inn, San Francisco, 1969

THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND. This photo was used for the cover of the album Fillmore East.

in some ways, the visual culture was so important, and the clothes they wore, and all of it had significance. Even wearing your hair long in the South in the early sixties was a risk. And my father’s band had a black drummer, and they traveled all throughout the South in a van as an integrated band, and that was risky. I think it shifted the conversation and moved the culture forward. And to have someone like Jim on the scene to document all of that, and to really appreciate that—Jim created a visual culture with his photographs that elevated all of these musicians. . . . I was two years old when my father died in a motorcycle accident, in 1971, which was a huge shock. He was 24 years old. So I really didn’t have my own memories of him. . . . The picture Jim had taken of my father in a Holiday Inn bathroom, and he was just alone with his guitar—it was so different from any photo I had seen of my father practicing. I’d always been told my father lived with his guitar around his neck, and Jim just caught it.

GALADRIELLE ALLMAN

Everyman Nuclear Protest Demonstrations, San Francisco, 1962. Everyman was the name of a boat built in 1961 by Bay Area peace movement activists. They intended to sail into Pacific Ocean nuclear test zones to protest nuclear testing. On May 27, 1962, the boat sailed out past the Golden Gate Bridge, only to be stopped by the U.S. Coast Guard. The protesters were arrested and jailed for thirty days.

This proof sheet shows the demonstrations held to protest the jailing of the Everyman crew and also to protest nuclear testing. With his camera, Marshall captured the protesters, in particular Ira Sandperl, who was an anti-war protester and also very involved in the Free Speech Movement with Joan Baez.

The 1960 United States presidential election in California, at San Francisco’s Democratic Headquarters for the nominee, Senator John F. Kennedy. California voted for the Republican nominee, Vice President Richard Nixon, and his narrow victory over Kennedy was the closest of the states Nixon won in 1960.

ODETTA and ELIZABETH COTTEN, joyful at the rare opportunity to see each other backstage at the Berkeley Folk Festival in 1978. The great Odetta, a.k.a. “The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement,” is cited as the key inspiration in the folk revival of the 1950s and 1960s. She was also a major influence for Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Janis Joplin, and Mavis Staples. Elizabeth Cotten wrote “Freight Train,” honed the left-handed guitar style known as “cotten picking” and never played anywhere but in church until she was in her sixties, when she was discovered by the Seeger family, for whom she worked as a housekeeper.

JIM MARSHALL reflected in the mirror while photographing ANDREW WOOLFOLK, saxophone player for Earth, Wind, and Fire (left) and VERDINE WHITE, bass player for Earth, Wind, and Fire (center), circa 1970

MARSHALL photographing BUDDY GUY and JUNIOR WELLS, 1970